Books by Sarah Weeks and Complete Book Reviews

Sarah Weeks, Author . HarperCollins/Geringer $15.99 (245p) ISBN 978-0-06-623622-3
Heidi It has gotten to be 12 years old without knowing any but the sketchiest information about her background: her mentally disabled mother, who insists her name is So Be It, showed up with the week-old Heidi on their neighbor Bernadette's...
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Sarah Weeks, Author HarperCollins $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-028367-4
This first novel by the author of Crocodile Smile and Follow the Moon brims with clich s and hoary plot turns. The narrator, 11-year-old Guy Strang, couldn't be more unlike his flamboyant mother and geeky dad, who constantly embarrass him. Naturally,
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Sarah Weeks, Author HarperCollins $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-028365-0
In this simultaneously funny and poignant sequel to Regular Guy, Weeks returns to the life of 13-year-old Guy Strang. His parents have now separated--his father has moved to California, and his mother has been dating ""geeky types,"" including his...
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Sarah Weeks, Author HarperCollins $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-029492-2
When best friend Buzz falls victim to a freak accident, Guy contemplates the meaning of fate in Guy Wire by Sarah Weeks. Despite its serious start, the fourth installment in the series begun with Regular Guy retains the humor of its predecessors
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Sarah Weeks, Author Laura Geringer Book $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-028369-8
Guy Strang from Regular Guy and Guy Time returns for a third installment, My Guy by Sarah Weeks, with more scenes of high hilarity: his mom is engaged to a professional clown! Can he stop them before they walk down the aisle? ( May)
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Sarah Weeks. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-545-27011-3
Delightfully quirky characters populate the 1950s-era small town of Ipswitch, Pa., beginning with 10-year-old Alice’s aunt Polly, pie baker extraordinaire, who confounds her family and neighbors by giving away—rather than selling—her shop’s...
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Sarah Weeks, Author , illus. by Holly Berry. HarperCollins/Geringer $15.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-694-01075-2
I'm a pig, I'm a pig,/ and I don't give a fig/ if you call me a pig,/ .../ and I'm happy as a clam/ that I'm not an armadillo,/ or a lion/ or lamb." So go some of the opening lines of Week's (Follow the Moon ) swine song&#
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Sarah Weeks, Author , illus. by Ed Briant. S&S/Atheneum $15.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-689-85607-5
This rhythmic romp, which marches along at a bouncy clip, features meticulous 3-D paper sculptures of an amiable red-headed girl with braids, her mischievous Siamese cat and an assortment of fantasy creatures. Upon hearing a compelling sound, the...
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Sarah Weeks, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-440781-6
In this third volume about Guy Strange, star of Regular Guy and Guy Time, Guy's mother is engaged to a professional clown. Can he stop them before they walk down the aisle? Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Sarah Weeks. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-545-46557-1
In spite of never having known her mother, 10-year-old Melody Bishop leads a pleasant small-town life in Royal, Ind., playing word games with her good-natured father (a humanities teacher) and hanging around with her best friend, Nick Woo. When...
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Sarah Weeks, Author, James Warhola, Illustrator, James Warhola, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-021572-9
In the annals of Hurricane City there are hurricanes enough for each letter of the alphabet: Alvin, Zack and everything in between. Clad in shorts and T-shirts, a family accustomed to intemperate weather gives a whistlestop tour of their city's...
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Sarah Weeks, read by Kate Rudd. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, four CDs, 4 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-4558-3312-2
When Polly, the beloved Pie Queen of Ipswitch, dies, leaving a will that inexplicably bequeaths her secret piecrust recipe to her cat, it’s up to her young niece, Alice, and her best friend, Charlie, to locate the missing recipe and help the town...
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Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-545-84660-8
An immigrant boy and a long-bullied American kid learn that things aren’t always as they seem in this engrossing and poignant tale from Weeks (Honey) and newcomer Varadarajan. Fifth grader Ravi was a star student back in India, but in New Jersey,...
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Robert Neubecker, Illustrator , illus. by Robert Neubecker. S&S/Beach Lane $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8686-7
In a rant worthy of talk radio, young Sophie warns readers of the horrors of siblinghood: “Babies are not sweet. Babies are not precious. Babies are not cute. Babies are... your worst nightmare !” If readers need further proof of Sophie&#
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Betsy Lewin, Illustrator , illus. by Betsy Lewin. S&S/Atheneum $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-83196-6
In this witty and wise book "two eggs," served in diverse ways, become a metaphor for how much individuals have in common, no matter what their tastes. Late one night in a diner, a slender orange fox awaits her customers. In the opening...
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Sarah Weeks, illus. by David Small. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-60954-8
The eponymous angora, a pampered pet of childless “gazillionaires,” has one job: “to be glamorous, and she was very good at it.” But when a pampered Chihuahua named Bluebelle—who seems to have no compunction about dressing up as Carmen Miranda and...
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator HarperCollins $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-694-01204-6
The third adventure starring the titular heroine, Oh My Gosh, Mrs. McNosh! by Sarah Weeks, illus. by Nadine Bernard Westcott, follows her through a series of surprises as she chases her runaway dog, including crashing a wedding party and...
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Nadine Bernard Westcott, Illustrator , illus. by Nadine Bernard Westcott. HarperTrophy $5.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-06-000479-8
A clothesline stretches throughout these pages as progressively stranger objects are hung out to dry. "A rollicking rhyme will have three year olds guffawing, with equally hilarious illustrations," noted PW. Ages 3-up. (May)
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Sarah Weeks, Author, David Diaz, Illustrator , illus. by David Diaz. S&S/Atheneum $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-83302-1
Weeks (Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash) awkwardly balances prose and poetry in this sometimes lyrical if sentimental story of a boy who, intrigued by a butterfly, wanders off while his mother picks blackberries. After setting this scene in a wordy and
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator , illus. by Ashley Wolff. Harcourt/ Gulliver $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-15-202561-8
With its skillful interplay of text and art, this story taps into one of the verities of preschool, the anxiety of being the last one picked up. "Our busy day is almost through./ Somebody special is coming for you./ Somebody special will open...
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Jef Kaminsky, Illustrator Random House Books for Young Readers $3.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-375-81262-0
Developed on the premise that eating books leads to reading books, Bite Me, I'm a Shape and Bite Me, I'm a Book by Sarah Weeks, illus. by Jef Kaminsky, feature comical illustrations and energetic rhymes. ""Reading books is lots of fun, but wouldn'
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Jef Kaminsky, Illustrator Random House Books for Young Readers $3.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-375-81261-3
Developed on the premise that eating books leads to reading books, Bite Me, I'm a Shape and Bite Me, I'm a Book by Sarah Weeks, illus. by Jef Kaminsky, feature comical illustrations and energetic rhymes. ""Reading books is lots of fun, but wouldn'
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Heather M. Solomon, Illustrator , illus. by Heather M. Solomon. S&S/Atheneum $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-84836-0
"I'm sitting in my time-out chair/ because my mother/ put me there," pouts a girl with a mop of red hair and garden-gnome features. Her mother sweeps cold cereal from the floor: "You try my/ patience, child!/ I do not like it/ when...
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Jeffrey Greene, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-025430-8
A sober subject and bouncy tune make a curious pairing in this book-and-cassette package from singer/songwriter Weeks (Crocodile Smile; Follow the Moon). Written in the voice of eight-year-old Jenny, the song addresses a neighbor suffering from AIDS.
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Elwood H. Smith, Illustrator , illus. by Elwood H. Smith. S&S/Atheneum $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-4026-5
Rocking out on her banjo, the bodacious Catfish Kate gradually adds members to her band (“Hum strum/ rattle-rattle/ tootle-ootle croon/ scritch-scratch/ zing zang/ underneath the moon”). But conflict arises when the girls' music...
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Michael Abbott, Author, Byron Barton, Illustrator Laura Geringer Book $19.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-027429-0
""There was a little man/ who ran a little factory,/ oh, la-dee-dah, la-dee-dah./ And every day he'd say,/ `You're okay, little factory,'/ oh, la-dee-dah, la-dee-dah."" Weeks's song (which she sings on an accompanying CD-ROM, tucked into a pocket...
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Suzanne Duranceau, Illustrator , illus. by Suzanne Duranceau. HarperCollins/Geringer $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-027816-8
Weeks and Duranceau (previously paired for Follow the Moon ) bring readers' attention to one of nature's most dramatic and odd stories. After giving birth, Antarctica's female emperor penguin entrusts the egg to her mate and leaves for a
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Warren Linn, Illustrator Laura Geringer Book $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-027965-3
Shoes, screws and mechanical hands lie scattered across the endpapers of this picture book, which posits a do-it-yourself Frankenstein. The monster-making kit comes in a big cardboard box, accompanied by instructions (""Screw elbow (A) to (B) to arm.
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Stephen Spinella, Read by , read by Stephen Spinella. HarperChildren's Audio $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-111653-7
It has been a rough year for 11-year-old Jamie Reardon. In short order, his cat, Mister, died, his father ran off with another woman, and the boy and his mother moved to a trailer park to live with his aunt Sapphy who, because of an accident at the...
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Sarah Weeks, Author, Sam Williams, Illustrator , illus. by Sam Williams. Harcourt $14 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205046-7
Weeks (Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash ) and Williams (No More Diapers for Ducky! , reviewed above) demonstrate a toddler's seemingly endless fascination with what happens when anything is tossed over the side of, well, everything. This chipper,...
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Sarah Weeks, illus. by Joey Ellis. Penguin Workshop, $9.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-593-22696-4
Odd couple robot pals Blippo and Beep explore humor in this easy-to-read graphic novel by Weeks (Soof) and Ellis (Wolfie Monster and the Big Bad Pizza Battle). When Beep, who’s short, round, and magenta, asks tall, bespectacled, blue Blippo, “Hey,...
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